beneficing

noun

1. a position or post granted to an ecclesiastic that guarantees a fixed amount of property or income.
2. the revenue itself.
3. the equivalent of a fief in the early Middle Ages.

verb (used with object), ben·e·ficed, ben·e·fic·ing.

4. to invest with a benefice or ecclesiastical living.

noun

1. Christianity an endowed Church office yielding an income to its holder; a Church living
2. the property or revenue attached to such an office
3. (in feudal society) a tenement (piece of land) held by a vassal from a landowner on easy terms or free, esp in return for military supportSee also vassalage

verb

4. (tr) to provide with a benefice

n.

c.1300, “a church living,” from Old French benefice (13c.) and directly from Latin beneficium “a favor, service, generosity, kindness, benefit,” from beneficus “generous, kind, benevolent, obliging,” from bene- (see bene-) + -ficus, from stem of -ficere, unstressed form of facere “to do, to make” (see factitious).